Improvement in mops



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No. 192,906. Pmntea July 10, 1877.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

EDMUND S. ELLIS, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192.906, dated July 10,1877; application filed June 11, 1877.

fication The object of my invention is to combine with a cylindricalrotating mop a wringingroller; and the nature of my invention consistsin a perforated cylinder, having thrums or tufts of yarn fixed to it, incombination with a wringing-roller, which is held in contact with saidcylinder by means of a bowspring, as will be hereinafter explained.

The invention also consists in the combination of a ratchet and pawl anda lever-handle with the cylindrical rotating mop, for the purpose ofsqueezing the water out of the latter, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the mop without the tuftsof yarn on the perforated cylinder. Fig. 2 is a section, showing theratchet and pawl for rotating the mop-cylinder.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates the handle of the instrument, to which a metalshank, B, is rigidly secured, having a flanged embracingring, B, formedon it, in which ring a hollow perforated cylinder, U, is free to turn.Cylinder G is covered with tufts of yarn, suitably secured to it, andits end bearings are in the slotted ends of a bow-spring, G, which ispressed into a notch formed in a projection, a,

of the shank B. This spring G bears a roller,

H, which may be formed chiefly of india-rubber, cloth, or other suitablesubstance, and p which is held in close contact with the mop by theaction of the spring G. By forcibly compressing the spring it can bedetached from the notch in the projection on.

F designates a hand-lever, and b a springcatch therefor. On this lever aring, E, is formed, which embraces the perforated mopcylinder betweenrings B B, and to which a pawl, c,'acted on by a small spring, ispivoted. Pawl c engages with the teeth of a ratchetwheel, 01, as shownin Fig. 2.

By detaching the upper end of lever F from its spring-catch b, andvibrating this lever, the pawl 0 will rotate the mop, and thepressure-roller will squeeze the water out of it.

In the drawing I have represented the ratchet-Wheel on the shaft of themop-cylinder and the pawl on the ring of the handle F; but I may applythe pawl on the cylindershaft and form the ratchet-teeth on the ring ofthe handle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire'to secureby Letters Patent- 1. In combination with the cylindrical rotating mop(J on a handle, A, a pressure-roller, H, acted on by a spring, G,substantially as described. I

2. The lever-handle F, ratchet and pawl c d, and pressure-roller H, incombination with mop-cylinder O, substantially as described.

EDMUND S. ELLIS.

